Let’s Get Moving (Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)Let’s all jump, jump, jump,jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump,Let’s all jump, jump, jump,Fast, fast, fast! (or Slowly, slowly, slowly!)Author: Ilinca Sadoveanu You can ask the children to contribute with different actions: dance, hop, skip, leap, dig, leap, tip toe, swim, blink, shake, etc. Kids can get…
Let’s Be Friends – An Easy Song for Learning Names
Here’s a song that might come in handy in January with your newcomers. Click on the image below to download the pdf file. Let’s Be Friends (Tune: Frere Jacques) What’s your name? What’s your name? My name’s _________. My name’s _________. Let’s all be friends, let’s all be friends and play together, and play…
Music Makes the World Go Round
Many people are under the impression that singing with preschoolers is not an act of learning. One day when I told the children’s parents that we had a song circle in the morning, some of them asked “but did you also do math?”. It seems like some don’t realize how important music is for children….
Pompom Color Matching Game
Supplies needed: markers, egg carton, pompoms, tweezers or scoopers for children. You just need to color the bottom of the egg carton (the parts underneath the eggs) with the same colors as the pompoms that you have. Using tweezers, the children should transfer the pompoms to the colors that match them. It’s a very easy…
All You Need to Know About Storytelling
I have always enjoyed telling stories to children, probably because my main field is philology and teaching foreign languages. I truly feel that songs and stories are the best means of teaching English to speakers of other languages and this reflects in the way the children in my group react to these types of activities….
Spider Ball Toss Game
This is a super-fun game that you could play with children on Halloween. They’ll get to practise their hand-eye coordination, gross motor skills, even math skills. Here’s what you will need to do: stick tape from one side of the door frame to the other, then add some plastic spiders or large black pompoms (with…